McDonald's India is "internally" probing an incident of a destitute child reportedly being thrown out of its outlet here, even as the restaurant management suspended the security personnel involved in the incident.

A Japanese woman has claimed she discovered fragments identified as "dental material" in a McDonald`s hamburger, the company said Friday, the latest in a series of food contamination woes for the fast-food giant.

China sentenced two members of a banned religious cult to death on Saturday for the murder of a woman at a McDonald`s restaurant after she refused an apparent attempt by the group to recruitment her, state media said.

China put on trial five members of a banned religious group on Thursday for the murder of a woman who was beaten to death at a McDonald`s after police say she refused to give them her telephone number when the group apparently tried to recruit her.

Regulators in Shanghai have found that scandal-hit China-based food supplier forged production dates on some of its products and sold them after their expiry, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.

The only two McDonald`s restaurants in the US that were serving food prepared according to Islamic law have stopped several weeks after a settlement over a lawsuit that alleged the items weren`t consistently halal.

McDonald`s and one of its franchise owners has agreed to pay 700,000 dollars following allegations that a restaurant had falsely advertised that its food is being prepared according to the Islamic dietary law.

Large brands like Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Cadbury’s have been provided with an unrivaled platform to promote unhealthy and junk food to children at the London Olympics, according to a report titled The Obesity Games.